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Dean was saved at the end of season 10 and it looks like Sam will need saving now. Can these boys ever not need saving?

Supernatural always amazes me at the new storylines and just how good the show continues to be after 10 seasons.

The season 11 promo looks very different from anything we’ve seen before. They’re dealing with a very new enemy, a very old enemy. This looks like the darkest Supernatural has ever gotten and it seems fitting, since they are dealing with the darkness.

What happened to Sam after the darkness was unleashed? He’s got black veins and blood coming out of his eyes in the preview! Is this because of the darkness or something else? The promo has me very worried about Sam. Looks like Dean will be returning the favor very soon.

In the moment Sam and Dean always do anything they can to save each other and then deal with the consequences, but they always feel guilty afterwards. Is it really selfish to do anything you can to save your brother though?

This time Sam is feeling so lost, he’s asking God for help, but he really hasn’t been much help to this point. So what does Sam think God will do for him?

Dean looks to be beaten a little in this promo, but he’s just doing the job. So maybe we can relax a little bit over Dean.

We can now confirm that Crowley is alive! I knew he would be, but it’s nice to know for sure. And he shows up quite a bit in the preview, which makes me very happy. He doesn’t have too many lines in the promo, but with his one line, we know his wit is back for another season: “terrible name by the way.” I can’t wait to see more of my favorite villain.

Cass has a big part in the promo as well. Hopefully we will continue to get the bromance between Dean and Cass and Dean and Crowley.

I think Sam needs a character to have a bromance with other than his brother. I don’t see Sam and Crowley partnering up anytime soon. The only reason Sam is alive is because Crowley has a weak spot when it comes to Dean.

Whoever made this promo, ended it with just the right touch, with Dean answering the phone, “Ghostbusters.”

It looks like were in for a roller coaster of a ride for season 11. Lets hope there are some light and funny episodes in between the intense ones, so we can catch our breath.

Supernatural has been nominated for Teen Choice Awards for years and in its tenth season the show finally brought home two awards.

Jared Padalecki won the Choice TV Actor: Sci-Fi/Fantasy award. Jared has done some great work over the last ten years, but in the year of Dean taking on the mark, you would have at least thought Jensen Ackles would have been nominated for this award too. This year it was once again brother saving brother. Jared has played this out numerous times before and this time Sam had to watch his brother turn into a demon and almost had to kill him. Not that dying means too much on this show.

Jensen wasn’t left out in the cold though. Jensen and Misha Collins won the Choice TV Chemistry award for Dean and Castiel.

For many seasons Cass and Dean have had such great chemistry, but did everyone forget about Crowley and Dean? They’ve had a great bromance going for the last couple of seasons too. It’s a shame that Mark Sheppherd and Jensen weren’t nominated for Crowley and Dean too.

It the writers keep Mark a central part of Supernatural in season 11, maybe Crowley will be nominated for an award next year.

Who’s your favorite bromance on Supernatural, Crowley and Dean or Castiel and Dean?

It was a Supernatural reunion at San Diego Comic-Con. Richard Speight Jr. (Gabriel/The Trickster) and Rob Benedict (Chuck Shurley/Carver Edlund) moderated the panel and they got side tracked quite a bit. At one point the hamster was asking Mark Sheppard (Crowely) questions.

According to Mark the hamster is the most talented actor that he’s worked with for ten seasons and wants to know if the hamster is coming back.

Do you remember the hamster? She was in charge of the coven that Rowena turned into a hamster.

Mark had a lot of fun during the panel and even told fans that his character is dead. He maintained that for most of the panel.

Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) said being dead doesn’t mean anything because he doesn’t know how many times he’s died now.

“It does to me. I don’t have a trailer anymore. I don’t have anywhere to park my car,” Mark said.

I guess since he’s being so tight lipped on his character, we’ll have to wait till season eleven to see if Crowley is alive or not. If you’re asking why bring Mark to Comic-Con if his character is dead, he said because he was going to go anyways.

Mark did get serious for a minute: “It’s been an amazing journey. I showed up as a guest star kissing a very tall man under a bridge and suddenly it’s like seven seasons later and it’s been the most fun journey I’ve have had. Even if I knew what was going to happen I wouldn’t damn well tell you because it’s so much fun.”

Supernatural has been going for ten years, but the boys have earned new fans with Netflix. Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) asked the crowd who started watching the show within the last year and the crowd screamed. Then he asked who started watching because of Netflix and there were even more screams.

Misha Collins (Castiel) mentioned how the boys have grown up with the fans.

“Actually I kind of almost teared up watching that retrospective back there because it feels like I’ve only been doing this…” Misha said.

“He did. He was a mess,” Jensen interrupted.

“I was balling,” Misha said.

Misha said he’s one of the new kids and he started out initially being afraid of the fans, then he started to embrace them and now he’s collaborating with fans.

Jared and Misha thanked the fans for being so great.

Misha and Jensen have such great chemistry on screen, but Misha is asked why he doesn’t have the same bond with Sam.

“The height difference between me and Jared is just too jarring,” Misha said.

When we left off Cass was giving Crowley a beat down and a very bad one at that. Which is why Mark keeps joking that he’s dead, or at least we hope he’s joking.

“I think I speak for the entire rest of the cast when I say opportunities to have fight scenes with Mark are really satisfying. Sometimes we convince the directors and the producers to let us shoot what we tell Mark are scenes but they are never intended to air. We just pound on him for al little bit while the cameras pretend to roll,” Misha said.

Jensen is actually directing the third episode of the season and Misha had a little story to tell about filming. He said that after a take Jensen gave him some direction. Then after another take he looked unsatisfied and gave him another note. After another take Jensen said, “I think I’m making it worse.”

“Evidently somebody sort of dropped the ball over the hiatus and forgot how to act, but thanks that was some of the best directing I’ve ever gotten,” Misha said

“After 10 seasons of playing these characters and knowing the story there’s an ease to having to direct the main cast which you really don’t have to unless it’s Misha, then you have to really kind of reign him in a bit. Jared knows his character so well, Mark knows his character so well, but Misha’s still working on it,” Jensen said.

“One of the things I like about directing is the challenge itself. Challenging myself, kind of think about the script in a different way and the whole right brain, left brain thing. So it’s fun and I’m enjoying it and I’m lucky to have such an amazing crew that picks me up if I’ve forgotten a few things. That’s a safety net in its own and it’s also amazing to have such talented people to work with and it also makes my job more fun as an actor,” Jensen added.

The Supernatural cast and crew is like one big family. They’ve seen kids grow up, people get married and have kids. They’ve seen divorces and deaths too.

“There’s no better feeling in the world then going to work and being embraced by the arms of your family and know that you have people there you can trust that are just smiling at you that makes your day better. We’re all in the same boat together,” Mark said.

“And then to come to places like this and be embraced by such loving…”

The crowd screamed before Jensen could even finish his sentence.

Jensen, Jared, Misha and Mark had a lot of fun on the panel and with fans, but they gave very a little away for the new season.

“That’s the fun about having such great fans like these, they’ll follow us anywhere. So we feel we have a lot of freedom to take the show in different ways, different places,” Andrew said.

Supernatural has done a lot of crazy things over the last ten seasons. It’s gotten meta, it’s done black and white and so many other things. Looks like we can look forward to more creative episodes in season eleven.

Executive producer Jeremy Carver confessed that fan favorites will be coming back, but in surprise ways, so he can’t give us more than that.

“This year we are going to back to a little bit more, I think an epic feel. The big bad and a real sort of a quest for the brothers…” Jeremy said and then Jared distracted him by slowly pretending to bite him.

“I’m just trying to tell them stuff man,” Jeremy continued.

Jeremy tried to continue, but the crowd was so quite he asked if they wanted to hear it.

“I’m putting myself to sleep here,” he said.

He went on to say it’s a pre-biblical story and the brothers are going to be really united.

When Jared was asked if he though they would beat the new big bad, he said: “Well I think we’ll beat it because we’re not the Loosechesters. Up top.” Jensen and Jared high fived.

“I was so proud of that,” Jared said.

“I’m so ashamed to be sitting next you,” Misha said while looking at Jared.

‘There’s a reason why Jared doesn’t have a long sit-com reel. He’s a one hour drama man,” Rob said.

Jared said his little joke again.

“I love sympathy comedy,” Misha said.

“That’s the only kind I’ve got. I’m excited to see the boys working together. We’ve seen them at odds and we’ve seen them working together and I’m happy to see them teaming up,” Jared said.

Jensen said they are left with the clean up after getting rid of the mark. They have to deal with their decision now.

One of the fans in the audience asked why Charlie was killed. That was a hard question for Jeremy to answer and the cast didn’t help him at all.

“It’s tough. Just because anytime you have a favorite character on a show,” Jeremy said.

“And that show is called Supernatural,” Jared added.

“People die on the show,” Jeremy added.

“It’s tough for me to answer. Just that she was an absolutely beloved character in the show, but we’re in the writers room and we have to go where the story takes us,” he said.

“I’d like to thank everyone up here for the support,” he said while the rest of the panel put there feet up and just left Jeremy to answer the question.

Felicia Day was only supposed to be in one episode and Jensen said we should be thankful for the time we got with her.

At the ‘Gilmore Girls’ reunion at the ATX Festival, some of the cast weighed in on who there favorite of Rory’s boyfriends were. Milo Ventimiglia said Dean, Jared Padalecki said Jess and Matt Czuchry also said Jess. But Jared said if Milo didn’t show up to the panel, he would have said Logan.

Alexis Bledel, who played Rory, wouldn’t give an answer and Scott Patterson, said none of them were good enough for Rory in true Luke fashion.

So who was the best boyfriend? Dean was the best first boyfriend a girl and especially a mother could ask for. He was really sweet and generous, but lets be honest, he was a bit boring. He never read Rory’s articles and if he did, he never had much to say about them.

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Jess on the other hand was dangerous and always kept us guessing. He was a mother’s nightmare and Lorelai hated him. Jess may not have had any direction in life, but he was very smart. He could actually keep up with Rory. He was recommending her books and could talk about literature with her. But lets face it, Rory had goals, Jess was going nowhere.

Logan was always my favorite. He was a bigger bad boy than Jess, but he was such an interesting character. Jess had no direction and Logan had too much direction. His life was already planned out for him. But he was really, really smart and he always read Rory’s pieces. He was very attracted to Rory’s brain. He never really pursued her because he never wanted to break her heart.

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This relationship was the most interesting with the ups and downs with Logan’s parents, when they were on a break and his business screw up. Logan and Rory always pushed each other and inspired each other. Rory ultimately won Logan in the end making him want to settle down. Rory’s relationship with Logan was very different than her high school ones. It wasn’t easy and it made for great entertainment. I especially loved when Rory was calling the shots. She really grew up during this relationship, something she never did with Jess or Dean.

I enjoyed watching Rory with all of her boyfriends, but Logan is my favorite.

Who was your favorite and why? Vote and then let me know why in the comments!

Over the weekend the cast of ‘Gilmore Girls’ reunited at the ATX Festival and it felt like we were back in Stars Hollow again! After eight years of the show being off the air, we now know some secrets and the cast shared who their favorite boyfriend of Rory was!

It’s hard to imagine that the show might have never happened. Amy Sherman-Palladino had decided she was done with television, but her husband told her to just write something. Then she pitched to the WB and the last thing she pitched was a mother-daughter duo that were more like friends, but she had no idea what that was.

Her and her husband went on vacation to Connecticut to a town that sounds very similar to Stars and Hollow and thus ‘Gilmore Girls’ was born. The town had pumpkins and hayrides and Amy thought, “this is not real.” She didn’t understand how all these people could just be talking to each other and actually wanted a response. By the Monday the show came together. She even wrote two scenes on the Inn’s stationary that she was staying at. Imagine how many fans would like to get their hands on that memorabilia.

All of the Gilmore Girls got their start on the show very differently. Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore) was already on a show on NBC and she just wasn’t available, but the project kept coming back around and finally she was asked in to audition.

“Something just clicked,” Lauren said. She said that Christopher Reeve had said something in an actors studio that really resonated with her: “The way you know a part is really for you is if you can’t stand the idea of anyone else doing it. And that’s how I felt about this. Ooh this is mine. I Can’t stand the idea of anyone else doing this.” And with that our favorite on screen mother was born.

Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore) was also born to play on ‘Gilmore Girls’. She was only on her fifth or sixth audition (ever!) when she read for Rory. She was just getting into acting while at New York University at the film school. She was modeling, but had never done acting before and she got the part. Alexis was perfect for this role.

Did you know that Liza Weil auditioned to play Rory and they wrote the part of Paris Gellar for her? She was only supposed to be in three episodes and it just kept going. She is now a fan favorite character.

“The younger version of myself was really freaked out that that’s what they wrote,” Liza said. “I couldn’t fathom that they would think that I could do that based on the other thing.”

She is now very flattered for her role as Paris.

A lot of the cast showed up for this great reunion, but Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore) passed away last year. He was still in everyone’s hearts though. They had a wonderful tribute and even left a seat for him. Amy said she was so grateful to be able to work with Ed.

Rory had three boyfriends over the seven season and the panel was asked who their favorite was. Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano) said he was team Dean and Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester) was team Jess. Matt Czuchry (Logan Huntzberger) was also team Jess. No one for poor Logan, but Jared did say if Milo didn’t show up, he was going to be team Logan.

Alexis wouldn’t even give an answer. She thinks it’s an unfair question because they are all such great actors.

Scott Patterson (Luke Danes) got the last word in by saying, “none of you are good enough for Rory,” in true Luke fashion.

Scott mentioned on a podcast that there are talks about a ‘Gilmore Girls’ movie, but that comment was more out of hope than actually one being in the works. Though he said he thinks it’s time for one.

Amy said, “It would have to be honored in a certain way.” Don’t give up hope, if the stars align like it did for the show to come together, we may get our movie reunion. Maybe Amy should think about going to Kickstarter just like Rob Thomas. I’m sure the fans would jump to the chance to help bring their favorite characters back together on screen.

Amy considers ‘Gilmore Girls’ her biggest success. “There’s just no way I’m going to top this,” she said. She still holds the show in her heart. “I got so lucky.”

Once again a Winchester was stopping at nothing to save his loved one.

Ten seasons and this was the craziest season finale of ‘Supernatural’ yet.

I am so thankful the CW renewed the show for another season, because I could not live without knowing if any of the characters survive! Who knows what that darkness did to Sam and Dean when it hit them and Cass is in the process of killing Crowley! This is just all bad! All the main characters left are in peril and now we have to wait all summer to find out their fate. This is the reason, I hate summer.

Sam is always going to save his brother no matter what. He goes to some pretty serious lengths to protect his brother. I was waiting to see how far he would go this week and he almost gave up his life to save Dean.

That really surprised me. Even in Dean’s darkness moments, I would never have guessed Dean would give up Sam’s life. Fortunately, it was all just a trick to kill Death. But why kill Death? What good did that do? I’m a little confused about why he killed Death. The visit from Death did teach us what would happen if Sam succeeded in removing the Mark, the Darkness would be released. To be fair Sam didn’t know that would happen and the spell was already in motion, so Sam couldn’t have stopped it. He did tell Cass to do the spell no matter what.

Could Rowena have gotten out of those chains the whole time or did the spell supercharge her magic? She’s been alive a long time, so I knew she was powerful, but I never expected her to be this powerful. We have two evils to worry about next season, Rowena and the Darkness.

I’ve always been the person who likes later seasons in series. I like when we know the characters and the writers can really have fun with them, like Cass and Crowley working together. You don’t see this much. I love these two guys. They have such great one liners and they are such fun characters. They are two characters I want to see until the end of the series. So the writers better not be writing either of them off the show.

Dean has been getting worse with each episode, but this week he hit rock bottom. He was so insensitive with people he was questioning, with the police and even just stood their and let a fellow hunter die. The Mark had taken hold. He then trashed his motel room. Things were not looking good. He wanted to die, unfortunately, but fortunately for us, he can’t be killed. I really thought he reached rock bottom when he was willing to let his brother die. I just couldn’t believe Dean would do that. It was just a cruel little joke the writers were playing on us.

But now what? The Mark is gone and the consequences seem severe. It seems like they basically released hell on earth. The Winchesters are no strangers to cleaning up their messes.

Even know these boys mess up a lot, they are not evil. Their work has twisted their souls for sure. I don’t think either of them will live happily ever after. I have no idea what the end game is. There may have been numerous end games over the last ten years, but the story keeps progressing.

All I have to say to the writers is, DON’T KILL OFF CASS AND CROWLEY! I know Sam an Dean are the show, but these two are great assets to the show too!

I’m nervous, but excited to see what happens to Sam and Dean. Obviously the writers can’t kill the Winchesters off, there would be no show. So I’m just going to keep pretending our boys our fine to get me through the long summer.

Charlie’s death has pushed Dean over the edge and he doesn’t even realize it.

To get revenge for a loved on being killed isn’t anything new for the Winchesters, but the way Dean did it was very different. As Cass said, the Dean he knew would have never killed that boy. That boy was innocent. He was about to run away and live the life he wanted to live, but Dean took that chance away from him. I thought that was heartbreaking. I thought that would be the low point, but no, the low point was when Dean almost killed Cass. Charlie would be devastated at the way Dean is acting. Charlie died so Dean could be saved. You can’t deny her her last wish.

Sam was all ready to give up, until he got Charlie’s email and now they can get the cure. But Sam has to kill Crowley first.

When Sam trapped Crowley, I was terrified. I do not want Crowley to die. Luckily Rowena’s hex bag didn’t work, but now Crowley is coming after his mother and isn’t going to think twice about killing Sam the next time he comes after him. I think the only reason why Crowley let Sam live was because of his friendship with Dean, as unconventional as that friendship may be.

I really thought we were going to get to explore the House of Frankenstein more. I was looking forward to getting to know a new ‘Supernatural’ monster, but Dean killed every last one of them. And it didn’t even seem very hard either. Unless there’s a Stein hiding somewhere, their family has just been wiped out.

I’m very scared going into the season finale. If Dean can turn on Cass and almost kill him, will he try to kill Sam when he learns that Sam is still working on a cure? He already wished Sam dead. Dean doesn’t want to pay the high price for that magic, but what about the price he’s paying for having the Mark on his arm? He almost killed one of his best friends and he killed a young innocent boy and thinks he was doing the right thing. How many more people have to die before he lets Sam cure him? Dean has done everything he could to save Sam time and time again, why not let Sam save him?

Next week will Dean finally get the Mark removed? Take a look at the promo:

How can the writers do this to us? How can they kill off Charlie? She was so much fun to have around. Why writers, why?

Rowena told Charlie that her loyalty to the brothers would be her downfall and it was. But she was ready and willing to die for Sam and Dean. There’s been a lot of people who have died around the Winchesters, but none who have sacrificed them self in the way that Charlie did. Charlie’s last good deed was cracking the codex code, which will be the key to saving Dean.

Dean better get with the program for being saved, because otherwise Charlie would have died in vain.

I’m a little mad at Charlie though. She knew it was dangerous to go outside. She knew people would be after her and she still did it. But she was also right, it’s what she needed to crack the code.

Will Sam and Dean ever be able to forgive themselves for what happened to Charlie?

The episode started out quite fun. I really liked Charlie, Cass and Rowena all in the same room. They are three completely different people. And Cass really doesn’t know how to be a referee. He doesn’t exactly have good social skills and he has no skills in keeping an evil witch and a rebellious girl like Charlie in check, but it was a lot of fun to watch. Rowena actually might be a bit surprised that Charlie broke the code.

This week we learned a lot more about the Stein family. Sam couldn’t understand why the family just appeared out of no where in the 1800s. Dean finds out, that’s because they changed their name. They come from a very, very old European family, the House of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley exposed them with her book and they had to change their name.

This is definitely a monster that we haven’t accounted on ‘Supernatural’ before. They’ve done vampires, demons and angels, but never delved into the lore of Frankenstein before. Will this enemy be sticking around for a while? I guess as long as Sam and Dean have the Book of the Damned, they will be.

Crowley’s minions are out looking for his mother and someone else. Crowley had a little chat with the head of the coven, who Rowena turned into a hamster, and now he’s seeking someone else. Who is this mysterious person?

There’s a lot of questions heading into the last two episodes of the season. Will Sam find a cure for Dean and will he kill Crowley. I will be very upset if they kill Crowley. I’m very worried now. I never thought they would kill off Charlie and they did. Is Crowley next?

Next week Dean is out for revenge for Charlie’s death. Take a look at the promo:

Dean gives Claire a hunting book, to at least prep her for what she’s getting into.

Cass has been beating himself up since he discovered he ruined Jimmy Novak’s family after he promised to protect them. He was finally able to make that right.

Claire must have had a soft spot for Cass or just had him there as a back-up, since she had his contact information for her emergency contact. It’s what let Cass back to her and to her mission to find her mother.

Why doesn’t it surprise me that her mother didn’t really just leave her. It is the world of ‘Supernatural’ after all. What looked to be just a troubled teen, turned into an actual case.

Claire’s search had led her to a so called faith healer, but as Sam and Dean have discovered, those don’t really exist.

Dean and Cass went to talk to the man that Claire had found, Ronny. So I don’t completely agree that in this instance the Mark was shinning through. It isn’t the first time Dean has used excess force on a witness and that was even before he had the Mark, but it’s understandable why Cass and Sam were worried.

Sadly Ronny gettting killed gave them more information than just talking to him.

The ‘Supernatural’ writers have found yet another monster to feature on the show. Ten years in and they still come up with new villains. This villain was an angel, but it was a particular kind of angel that we’ve never met before. A rouge one, a Grigori. Cass thought they were all extinct, but apparently not. They pray on humans taking their souls and according to Tamiel, they been doing it since the beginning of time.

He wasn’t an easy angel to kill. He had a different kind of angel sword and he was tough. It took Cass, Sam and Dean fighting with him and then Claire getting a second to strike to take him down.

Claire has had her first monster kill and she seems to like the idea of hunting. Did Sam and Dean make it sound so cool? Or maybe her mother getting killed, like there’s did, is what has made her chose this possible path. Dean tried to talk her out of it, but to be honest, after her life so far, does she have any better options?

The best part of this episode was when Dean and Claire were playing miniature golf. We’ve never really seen Sam and Dean have any fun that isn’t the girls and booze kind. It was strange, but nice to see Dean doing something normal.

Next week Charlie is back and her and Sam are back to saving Dean. Take a look at the promo:

So what does Rowena want in return for decoding the Book of the Damned? Crowley dead! The writers can’t kill of Crowley! Luckily his death won’t be coming anytime soon. First Rowena has to decode the book and find a cure.

No wonder Sam and Charlie couldn’t decode the book, they needed the codex. Nadia, an old coven witch, was killed by the Men of Letters and the codex was taken from her. So Sam didn’t have to go far to search for it. He found evidence of the codex right in their bunker.

He listened to a recording of a meeting from Cuthbert Sinclair’s expulsion. The same Men of Letters member that tried to make Dean into a Zoo exhibit. He created the werther box to stop anyone from getting their hands on the codex. Two Men of Letters died trying to get the box open.

At the beginning of the episode a girl opens the box in 1973, in a house in St. Louis. She’s knocked out, while a green smoke goes into her family and makes them all commit suicide. This dubbed the house a suicide house.

Sam calls Rowena to tell her he had a lead. He needed a spell to break the enchantment. She believed the Cabirian Invocation would do the trick. She wanted to come with, because she believed Sam wasn’t up to the task in casting the invocation.

Sam went to the house alone, assumed it was empty and tried to pick the lock. But Susie still lived in the house. The girl who opened the box. She stuck her gun out the letter box and he had no choice but to leave.

Rowena wasn’t too happy about the new arrangement. How badly does she want her son dead?

Dean showed up. Dean had earlier killed six vamps by himself and Sam wasn’t impressed. Dean assumed Sam was trying to teach him a lesson. So Sam had to spin the truth. All Dean knew about the house was it was a suicide house and a very cold case. Sam told Dean about the box, but not the whole truth. Just that the Men of Letters created and it was their responsibility, their legacy was to take care of it.

So Dean tried knocking on the door and posing as a neighborhood watch person. He got in the house and distracted Susie, while Sam got to the box.

Susie knew what they were after. No one ever knocks on her door and now she’s gotten two visitors in one hour.

Sam was in the middle of doing the invocation when Dean called him to come upstairs. It was probably him being distracted, but his spell didn’t work and the green smoke was let out when Sam opened the box.

Susie quickly committed suicide after seeing her dead family. Then Susie came back to plead with Sam to kill himself, but it was going to take a lot more than that. So Rowena showed up. It appeared that the witch was really there, but she was just the enchantment getting inside Sam’s head.

Dean was also plagued by this, but his came in the form of Purgatory and his old friend Bennie. Bennie tried to tell Dean he wanted to be in Purgatory and seeked the purity of killing with out consequence. When Dean refused that theory, Bennie said he should take his own life because having Sam and Cass do it as a last resort would destroy them.

Dean came really close in accepting that fate. Bennie gave him his weapon in the figment and in reality, Dean broke from his ropes and grabbed a bottle. He broke it and looked ready to use it. But Dean still has hope and stabbed Bennie with the weapon instead. The figment disappeared then.

Meanwhile the Rowena figment had revealed the inscription and Sam figured out how to open the box. Men of Letters’ blood, his blood.

He started draining his blood and the box started opening. But then it stopped. Rowena said it wanted all of it. Then Dean comes running down. This is when you figure out Rowena isn’t really there. Sam tells Dean how to open it. So Dean assumes it doesn’t have to be one Men of Letters’ blood and gives it his. The box opens and they have the codex.

But Sam isn’t prepared to tell Dean what it is. He claims he doesn’t know what it is. There’s a hint in Dean’s voice that seems like he may know more than what he’s letting on. He may not know the details, but he might suspect it has something to do with saving him.

Sam meets with Rowena and puts her in, what I can only assume are magic binding chains. He’s going to keep her there until she cracks the code and finds a cure for Dean. She is not happy about this arrangement at all.

Next week a heavenly assassin leads them to a teenage girl. Take a look at the promo: